, 1887-09-25
NEWPORT.
A Historic Town With Many Scenic
Beauties.

copyrighted 1887 by THE CHEYENNE LEADER.l
Boston, Sept. 23.-There are three
interesting sides to the pleasant old city of
Newport by the sea.
These are very marked and clear to the
observant traveller. One, is that from
which a certain little number of nouueau
riches rustic their plumes and faunt their
gew gaws, that the rest of the real world
may know how gracious it is that they are
permitted to come so near. Another is a
bright and sunny side, drawing one here
again and again to a place that must be
positively set down as the most charming
known seaside resort. And another, the
most interesting of all, is that warm and
beaming face which looks out Hospitality
and invitingly from a perspective of age,
condition and event, as ripe and good, as
cherry and sweet, as mellow and inform.
ing as ever one anywhere turned friendly
eyes upon.
The first phase of Newport life is every
where with us, differing only in degree.
To genuine Americans, it is always dis
gushing, when not uproarousiy and calam-
Itously ridiculous. In Newport, its
grave and lugubrious stiffness is colos sal.
Here was a genuine aristocracy of birth,
patriotism, accomplishment, true refine
ment and wealth, before the century
came in. Added to that were charming
environment, noble homes, the grandest
surf the tired body ever drew rest and ex-
a~ltation from. and easy access from the
great metropolitan cities of the East.
THE sHoDDY PRINCESS
who were the outgrowth of our late civil
war, looking about for sites for palaces.
saw the sweet old place, and it was soon
defled by their ignorance, idleness and ex
t~ravagance. Newport had grand old homes
encountered through loss; noble estates
clouded by misfortune. These fell prey
to the p%arvenus, and thus was the new
aristocracy Of Newport established. An
alyEed, its component parts are found to
be: Riches, arrogance, Ignorance, excess.
Shredded to an NATURALIZATION, the
claim of each of its members for distinc-
ton would furnish as ludicrous a retro
spect as their concrete pretensions provide
ridiculous CONCENTRATIONS. The father of
one made a great newspaper and left it
and his wealth to a callow youth. The
callow youth bought a p~rincely Newport
estate, and rested his claims to aristocracy
on bronze owls flashing their night-eyes
from fence posts and tree limbs-and
from polo. Another, furnished an army
contract for shoes, and every pair the
southern night dews shed from the feet
of us who wore them, bought a square
foot of historic Newport ground.
Another grew rich and famous making
snuff and cigarettes from gutter snipe'
cigar stubs. A couple more happened to
be sons-in law OF a man who came pretty
nearly owning the whole country, and
burst a blood vessel because he did not.
Another got hold of some Kentucky race
horses that won, and then some rail
roads whose stocks were similarly manage
able. Another found u how to largely
increase the bulk of sugar by refining"
it with profitable apocryphal glucose. An
nther, a woman, shrewdly established a
sort of American reformatorY for found
cred noblemen, secured distinction in the
NUMBER, variety and worthlessness of her
titled wards, and in launching phillipics
against the wise and parental press for its
gentle reproof and protestation. And so
on and on the story might be told of these
offensive, vulgar persons who have come
70 Newport with their dollars, diamonds
and debaucheries. They